Dr. Alok Kanojia

But the real solution to that is sometimes is to force yourself to do it and kind of get yourself out of it.

You know, there are some studies that show that exercise is equally effective to an SSRI.

So there's a value to that.

But I think what a lot of people are missing is their conception of the thing is what's making them tired.

You know, if you think about something that you haven't done before and you're like, oh, my God, I have to do this thing.

And then when you do it, you're like, oh, it's not that bad.

And then you procrastinate on doing the thing even though it's actually pretty easy to do.

So changing your understanding of what you are tired to do is the fastest way to be able to do it.

But the problem is we don't teach men what's going on inside them.

We don't teach them about their emotions.

We don't teach them about motivation.

And so when I focus on that, that's really what I focus on doing.

There's an old Sanskrit sentiment that avidya, which means ignorance, is the source of dukkha, which is suffering.

All of your suffering in life has nothing to do with willpower, motivation or anything like that.

It's all a lack of understanding.

And the more I've worked, the more I've realized that the most powerful thing that you can give yourself is understanding.

Even if I were to ask you, you know, like the things that are easy for you are the things that you understand.

And before you understood them, they were hard.

As someone who's lazy, like understanding what motivates you is actually more important than discipline or willpower for me anyway.

I'm a degenerate.